AR clash with PLA, UNPC in Ukhrul
2 AR troops, 1 UNPC cadre dead
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 05 2011:
Two Assam Rifles troops and an United Naga People Council (UNPC) cadre were killed in an armed clash which erupted on December 31 and went on till the next two days in an interior part of Ukhrul district, official reports said.
A gunfight erupted between troops of 12 Assam Rifles and a combined team of PLA and UNPC on December 31 at a place between Khambi and Shorte village bordering with Myanmar.
The gunfight carried on till January 2, 2011 .
Reports said that in the gunfight two jawans of Assam Rifles were killed and another two were injured.
The PLA has however claimed killing three out of 10 casualties on the AR side.
The dead bodies of two AR personnel, Rifleman No.124688, KC Naik son of PC Naik of Orissa and Rifleman No.50096806, Lanmin Moia son of Malphina of Mizoram, were later brought to Imphal and after postmortem at RIMS morgue were sent to their native villages.
The gunfight escalated to nearby areas after the Assam Rifles reinforced by the Army went after the escaping rebels.
A close contact gunfight was reported on early January 1 at Makhan Khong near Meiti river under Chassad Police Station of Ukhrul district.
Police reports said that the gunfight erupted around 10 pm and that in the fight a cadre of the UNPC killed.
AR authority claimed recovery of one AK-47 rifle, two magazines, two lethode bombs and 56 live rounds of 7.62 ammunitions from the slain cadre.
A statement of the People Revolutionary Front (RPF) signed by T Leishemba revealed that the clashes were between the Assam Rifles and a combined team of its army wing, PLA and UNPC's Ching Tam Liberation Army (CTLA).
The statement expressed shock and sorrow on the bereavement of the CTLA cadre.
Counting the two security personnel killed on December 31, 113 people died in insurgency-related incidents during 2010 .
As per a police case report, during the year 74 insurgents, three security men and 36 civilians including nine non-Manipuris died in insurgency-related violence.
The total number of civilians, insurgents and security force personnel killed in violence in 2010 was lower than in the previous year, according to cases registered with police stations across the state.
The South Asian Intelligence Review (SAIR) from its side has registered 134 fatalities in 2010 including 103 militants, 24 civilians and 7 Security Force (SF) personnel, in 1,086 recorded incidents, as against 416 persons, including 321 militants, 77 civilians and 18 SF personnel, killed in 950 incidents in 2009 .
The SAIR observed that after years there have been evident gains for the counter-insurgency (CI) grid in Manipur, with Security Forces inflicting losses on the state's multiple insurgent groups, neutralizing significant numbers of their cadres and contracting their areas of dominance.
The State witnessed just seven major incidents (involving three or more killings) in 2010 as against 29 such incidents in 2009.Significantly, in all these incidents in 2010, it was the militants who were at the receiving end.
Unfortunately, in the absence of greater political probity and administrative maturity, the gains of the recent past may yet again be frittered away, as were the opportunities in 2002-2003, it added.